Siegfried Rasp

Siegfried Rasp (10 January 1898-2 February 1968) was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.

Biography
Siegfried Rasp was born on 10 January 1898 in Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (now Germany). In 1916 he joined the Bavarian Army during World War I and rose through the ranks of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in the 1930s - in November 1943 he was promoted to Major General. He took command of the German 19th Army in December 1944 and was the commander of German forces in the Colmar Pocket in January-February 1945. He was forced to surrender and Rasp was held as a prisoner-of-war in Munster by the United Kingdom until 1947.